Mary Jane Richards' (KPMG) Presentation: Graduate & Summer Intern Recruitment 2012

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• A bit about KPMG

• How to prepare

• What to wear

• Interview questions

• What we look for at interview stage

• The ideal KPMG candidate

• Personal Branding

•Your questions

Agenda





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• We lead by example

• We work together

• We respect the individual

• We seek the facts and provide insight

• We are open and honest in our communication

• We are committed to our communities

• We act with integrity

KPMG Values





• 40-50 graduates, 25-30 summer interns

• Service Lines

• Audit - Accounting

• Tax – Accounting/Law

• Business Advisory – Accounting

• Advisory – Accounting/IT/Economics/HR/Finance

KPMG – About Us



Graduate Induction Programme



Learning and Development



Global Mobility Secondments







How to prepare

• Research the firm/know your market

• Trends in the industry

• Current events affecting the firm

• Current events affecting business unit

• Consider how to effectively communicate your strengths/experience

• Consider how to differentiate yourself from other candidates

• First impressions are important

• Communicating with Human Resources team

• Greeting receptionists



Interview questions

• Based on KPMG’s Values and competency framework:

• Delivering quality service

• Building relationships

• Drive and resilience

• Problem solving

• Career aspirations

• Behavioural based: Honest answers with examples based on your previous life work

experience

• Ensure your responses adequately and succinctly answer interview question

• Be prepared to further expand on your answers and the examples you have given



What we look for at interview stage

• Ability to engage interviewers

• Open and honest answers

• Candidate questions that demonstrate a genuine interest in KPMG and the relevant

business unit

• Enthusiasm and passion for their chosen career

• Be professional at all times!



Don’t Leave Your Personality At Home!



The ideal KPMG candidate

• Has good grades (doesn’t need straight A’s)

• Doesn’t leave their personality at the door

• Has energy and a passion for life

• Is well rounded - strikes the right balance in life

• Has good communication skills

• Demonstrates high levels of resilience

• Has the ability to work successfully in a team

• Is focussed on a career with KPMG





• What is your personal brand?

• Why is passion important?

• Networking and relationship building

• Mentoring and professional contacts

• Online branding

What Can You Do NOW?



Personal Branding Tips for Students

Understand yourself and be authentic

Introducing yourself effectively – the “elevator speech”

Confidence versus arrogance

Marketing yourself as a product

Business cards



Personal Branding Tips for Students

Looking the part

Having a strong online brand

Communicate, communicate, communicate

Pursue every opportunity

Feedback and reassessment



The Importance of Passion

Enthusiasm

Proactivity

Say “yes”

Find your passion

Talk to passionate people

Give as much as you take

Be curious



Networking and Relationship Building

• Building your networks

• Who are your networks?

• Relationships should be mutually beneficial

• School alumni

• Volunteering

• Industry associations

• Attending networking events

•

Follow up FAST• Show your gratitude

• Keep in touch



Mentoring and Professional Contacts

• Finding a mentor

• Maintaining the relationship



Your Online Brand

• Google yourself!

• Keeping it real and keeping it clean

• Email etiquette

• Be an active user not a bystander

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

• Facebook



Your Online Brand

• Keeping in touch

• Update your status regularly

• Leave comments/blog

• Follow potential employers

• All roads lead to…YOU

• Be careful out there



KPMG’s process for 2012

• Applications open 1 March and close 18 March!

• Apply online at www.kpmg.com/nz

• If successful, you will receive a phone call and testing to sit (Verbal and Numerical reasoning)

• If you do well on these you will be invited to Ace the Case and our Open Evening

•

Auckland event is on Sat 24 March and Sun 25 March (for Hamilton, Tauranga and Auckland offices)

• Wellington event is on Sat 31 March and Sun 1 April (for Wellington and Christchurch offices)

• Interviews take place after Ace the Case by which time you will know everyone really well and will be more relaxed

http://www.kpmg.com/nz

http://www.kpmg.com/nz



What is Ace the Case?

Ace the Case is a KPMG Global initiative that has been running for

several years around the world and in NZ for the past three years.

Ace the Case is a workshop designed to give you the skills to

analyse a real life business case, work in teams to come up with a

solution to that business’s problem, and present your findings to the

“board” of that business.

You then receive individual feedback on what you did well and what

you could improve on….

We then announce the winning team who take away a KPMG Ace

the Case trophy. Everyone receives certificates to say they have

participated in KPMG’s Ace the Case – a great thing to add to your

CV!





KPMG is a supporting partner of Teach

First NZ• New Zealand has one of the highest levels of

educational inequality in the OECD

• What does this mean? Put simply – children in

NZ do not all have equal access to educational

opportunities.

• Where a child is born or what ethnicity they are

does so much to determine their educational

prospects and therefore life chances.

• Teach First NZ is an independent charitable trust

working to tackle educational inequality in New

Zealand.

• KPMG is very proud to be a supporting partner

of Teach First NZ 32



Lead in the classroom then lead in the

boardroom• Teach First NZ is tackling this problem by placing carefully selected top

graduates into a two-year Leadership Development Programme that willsee them teaching in low-decile schools in Auckland and Whangarei.

• Great teachers make great leaders! KPMG recognises the calibre of candidates that will be selected for the programme and the development

opportunities that will be given to a Teach First NZ participant.

• If you are successful in your application to Teach First NZ AND you aresuccessful in your application to KPMG, we will hold a graduate positionopen for you at the end of the two-year teaching programme.

• For more information on the Teach First NZ programme visitwww.teachfirstnz.org

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Mary Jane Richards' (KPMG) Presentation: Graduate & Summer Intern Recruitment 2012